On March 5, 2002 Creative released a new external sound card named Sound Blaster Extigy. The device connects a computer only via a USB cable, that is why it will be useful for owners of notebooks or other computers who do not want or can't install sound cards into their PCs. This package is an update for the Sound Blaster Extigy for users running Windows 98SE, Windows ME, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. The package will update the following: Sound Blaster Extigy Drivers (Update to V5.) Sound Blaster Extigy Firmware (Update to V1.1.020507) Creative Audio Mixer (Update to V2.01.15) reative Diagnostics (Upda.
Creative Technology Ltd.
Windows Vista, Windows Vista (64 bit)
sbext.inf_90a9513d.zip (2.3 MB)
1.00.004 (4-Apr-2007)
I made this hack for all the owner of a Sound Blaster Extigy that want to use it on Windows Vista. I make it available here as no support exist anymore for the product.
If sound device Extigy is detected but failed to install properly. Device Manager -> Extigy Item (with a ! icon) Reinstall driver -> device manager -> Select the current patched driver.
Please let me know if it worked out for you or not.
Yopi (DG Member) on 5-Apr-2007
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the driver doesnt work at all, can i claim refund????
very angry!!!!'
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Manufacturer | Creative Technology Ltd. |
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Class | MEDIA |
Hardware Ids | |
Compatible Hardware Ids | No Compatible Hardware Ids found. |
The following files are found inside the driver download file.
Name | Size | Date |
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sbext.inf_90a9513d/AudCtrl.dll | 47.9 KB | 21 Mar 2002 |
sbext.inf_90a9513d/SBExt.cat | 10.3 KB | 7 Jun 2002 |
sbext.inf_90a9513d/a3d.dll | 59.4 KB | 14 Oct 1998 |
sbext.inf_90a9513d/component.man | 2.5 KB | 4 Apr 2007 |
sbext.inf_90a9513d/eapci2m.ecw | 2.3 MB | 15 Oct 2001 |
sbext.inf_90a9513d/sbext.PNF | 34.2 KB | 4 Apr 2007 |
sbext.inf_90a9513d/sbext.inf | 13.6 KB | 4 Apr 2007 |
sbext.inf_90a9513d/sbext.sys | 1.2 MB | 31 May 2002 |
With the Sound Blaster Extigy, Creative Labs gives computer music fans seven outputs and five audio inputs of pretty much every kind. With this external sound card attached via USB, your computer can send and receive audio to and from MiniDisc players, DVD players, home-theatre systems, surround-sound speakers, microphones, guitars, MIDI drum machines and almost any other audio device you can think of, in digital, analogue, or Dolby Digital surround sound. Plus, you get clean sound on all ports and a remote control -- all for the price of about 10 CDs.
The Extigy adds a long list of input and output jacks to your desktop. On the front, you'll find optical in, optical out, line in, mike in with hardware-level control and a line/headphones out with hardware-volume control. The back panel houses a USB jack, MIDI in, MIDI out, S/PDIF in, S/PDIF out and three jacks for outputting Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound (front, rear, and centre/subwoofer). With all of these ins and outs, you can connect pretty much any audio device to the Extigy -- and we did.
Installation is ridiculously easy -- a refreshing change from the audio-hardware headaches we've encountered with PCI-card-based solutions. You can put the Extigy on your desk either horizontally or vertically using two rubber feet. When it's connected, the Extigy replaces your sound card. But to prevent configuration issues, your system reverts seamlessly back to your internal sound card when the Extigy is disconnected or powered down.
Since the Extigy sits outside your PC, attaching cords is a great deal easier than having to reach around to the back of your computer every time. The fact that it is an external device also renders your audio free from the PC's internal electrical noise. The digital-to-analogue and analogue-to-digital converters are of a very high quality (more than a 100dB signal-to-noise ratio and up to 24-bit 96KHz in and out), so whether you're listening to PC-based MP3s on your headphones or recording onto your hard drive from an LP, the Extigy delivers remarkably hiss-free sound. Analogue stereo input and output volume levels can be adjusted using knobs on the front of the Extigy, via the taskbar mixer or with the Creative Audio Mixer.
The Extigy is perfect for recording from an external source, but due to the latency caused by the USB cord, it's only just passable for amateur musicians wanting to record multiple tracks of audio. People who want to tackle multi-track recording or MDI work should go with the Sound Blaster Audigy instead since its latency is 2ms or less, as opposed to the Extigy's 40ms.
We encountered more difficulty using the Extigy while watching DVDs. Since the Extigy can't send Dolby Digital 5.1 to a home-theatre system optically, the only way to get Dolby Digital 5.1 out of the DVDs you play on your computer is to use the six-channel analogue outputs or to connect the S/PDIF output to Cambridge SoundWorks or Creative's own Inspire Dolby Digital 5.1 speakers. With stereo recordings, the button-accessible CMSS function can up-mix the stereo recordings to convincingly simulate surround sound. Other than the Creative and Cambridge speakers mentioned above, the Extigy should be used with only surround-sound computer speakers since they have the correct analogue inputs. When we tried this approach, the results were excellent -- fully immersive surround sound. The Extigy also supports EAX and DirectSound3D, so video games with those capabilities will sound the way they should. We tried Half-Life, which uses EAX 1.1, and noticed that the sound was smoother and clearer with the Extigy than with the standard-issue sound card on our test PC.
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